On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing by Owen Whooley
Published 2019 · 83,600 words · about 7 hours at an average pace
How hard is On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing to read?
On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing scores 60 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 68 out of 100
- Sociological and psychiatric vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 65 out of 100
- Formal academic sentences.
- Abstraction: 72 out of 100
- A history of a profession's failures, argued conceptually.
- Information density: 70 out of 100
- Dense archival material.
How On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing is regarded
On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing holds a literary regard score of 38 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.